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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the Department Chair say he met his wife in Chapter 4?
(a) Japan.
(b) Vietnam.
(c) Taiwan.
(d) Laos.

2. What character is the Thespian playing in the film?
(a) Captain Anderson Rockwell.
(b) Captain Will Shamus.
(c) Sergeant Jay Bellamy.
(d) Sergeant Jay Walters.

3. Who wrote the following quote that opens the novel: "Let us not become gloomy as soon as we hear the word 'torture'"?
(a) Edgar Allan Poe.
(b) Adolf Hitler.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Friedrich Nietzsche.

4. Who is the author of Asian Communism and the Oriental Mode of Destruction?
(a) Richard Hedd.
(b) Nikolay Chernyshevsky.
(c) Karl Marx.
(d) Chairman Mao.

5. How does the narrator describe having broken the Watchman during interrogation in Chapter 11?
(a) By threatening to reveal that the Watchman is a woman.
(b) By threatening to reveal that the Watchman is communist.
(c) By threatening to kill the Watchman's family.
(d) By threatening to falsely reveal the Watchman is gay.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what ethnicity is James Yoon described in Chapter 10?

2. In what film does the narrator describe Mickey Rooney playing a "bucktoothed, bespectacled Jap" in Chapter 8?

3. The narrator writes to the Commandant in Chapter 7, "We're revolutionaries, and revolutionaries can never be" what?

4. What is the name of the film that the narrator is to advise about?

5. What kind of camera does the narrator describe carrying in the hidden compartment of his rucksack?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the first business venture the General undertakes in the U.S.? Why?

2. What is the narrator's relationship to the General?

3. What information does the narrator learn from Man in Chapter 4? How does he receive this information?

4. What does the narrator remark about propaganda in Chapter 11?

5. How does the narrator become injured in Chapter 11?

6. How would you describe the narrator's relationship with the Auteur?

7. Who is Bon and what is his relationship to the narrator?

8. Who is Madame? How would you describe this character?

9. How is the theme of religion explored in Chapter 5?

10. How is the theme of sympathy explored in Chapter 12?

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